Pop-up blockers also can block printing

Q: Just recently I started having problems printing documents from Yahoo. A message comes up saying that the problem most likely is caused by a pop-up blocker. Can you tell me how to fix this?

A: A print command from Web-based mail like Yahoo usually generates a pop-up listing the printing options. If you have a pop-up blocker turned on to prevent advertisements, it also may be blocking this type of pop-up, thus preventing you from being able to print.

To alleviate this problem, you will need to enable pop-ups for the Yahoo site or simply disable the pop-up blocker altogether when trying to print.

Internet Explorer has a built in pop-up blocker that can be accessed by clicking on Tools and selecting pop-up blocker. From here you can adjust your settings.

It is also possible that you have a toolbar installed that provides pop-up blocking. If that is the case, you will need to adjust the setting for any of these you may have installed.

There's an article at https://host.softworks.ca/Agate3/blocker/disable-blockers.htm that describes how to manage pop-up blockers in many of the popular toolbars as well as other browsers like Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

Pop-up blockers can be useful in reducing the amount of online advertising that is presented on your computer screen, but can also block functionality of certain websites. Knowing how to manage them will ensure that you are able to access and use legitimate pop-ups and block the ones that are just annoying.

Q: In browsing the Web, I often find that clicking the Back arrow doesn't take me from the website I'm visiting. Sometimes I have to click several times to get back to the previous page, and sometimes I can't go back at all. Is there any way to fix this?

A: Getting stuck like this on a website occurs when the Back button takes you to a page that redirects to the page you are trying to leave. This causes the Back button to put you in a repeating loop.

Sometimes, clicking the Back button repeatedly and quickly returns you to the page you were visiting previously, but this doesn't always work.

What does work is clicking and holding the Back button. This brings down a list of the pages visited previously, so you can then select the page you want.

This feature not only helps with going back to the previous website, but also can let you skip back to any of the pages you were looking at in the current browser session.

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